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An apparatus for cleaning and re-inking a fibrous printer ribbon carried on first and second reels and having foreign matter thereon comprising a frame, first and second pairs of rotatable spindles mounted in the frame so as to define parallel axes and capable of holding the first and second reels, first and second motors for rotating the first and second pairs of spindles, an elongated inking roller rotatably mounted in the frame between and parallel to the axes for contacting and applying ink to the printer ribbon, a metering roller rotatably mounted in the frame parallel to the inking roller for metering ink onto the inking roller, a trough disposed beneath the inking roller for containing ink and providing such ink to the inking roller, a reservoir capable of holding ink for supplying ink to the trough, an elongated brush rotatably mounted in the frame intermediate the second pair of spindles and the metering roller for contacting, forcibly removing the foreign matter and opening the fibers of the ribbon, and a third motor for rotating the inking roller and for rotating the brush in an angular direction opposite to that of the inking roller and of the second pair of spindles when the ribbon is being accumulated on the first reel, whereby when the reels are held by the spindles and the first motor rotates the first pair of spindles in a direction such that the ribbon is accumulated on the first reel, the brush forcibly removes foreign matter from the ribbon and serves to clean and to open the fibers of the ribbon, and whereby continued rotation causes the inking roller to contact and apply ink to the cleaned ribbon, the ink serving to penetrate into the opened fibers of the ribbon.
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